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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: something screwy with mail...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.192809.776@sol.UVic.CA>
- Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
- References: <marcf.725421090@yorku.ca> <C016B7.4q6@rice.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 19:28:09 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <C016B7.4q6@rice.edu> dharry@cyclone.rice.edu (Dennis Harry) writes:
- >In article <marcf.725421090@yorku.ca>, marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
- >|>
- >|> We are fooling around with things right now, and have just
- >|> noticed a weird problem...when you send email to a user, the
- >|> ownership is incorrect, so that the receiver can not even read his
- >|> email :(
- >|>
- >|> I just sent user from my account to another, and I am now
- >|> the owner of his mail folder.
- >|>
- >
- >I'm having the same problem, also after "fooling around". Specifically,
- >I moved several binaries between /bin and /etc/bin (after copying both
- >directories to a safe place in case I broke something). Mail broke,
- >so I restored the saved directories. Mail's still broke as Marc described.
- >
- >Sigh. Did someone say something about not fixing what ain't broke?
- >
- >-- dlh
-
-
- to set up user1 for mail try
-
- touch /usr/spool/mail/user1
- chmod 600 /usr/spool/mail/user1
- chown user1 /usr/spool/mail/user1
-
- Someday soon, a real adduser script will be crafted, to do this.
- Do not use the old adduser. Discard it now.
-